Which tools do you miss in D?

ed growlercab at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 15:30:11 PST 2014


On Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 20:29:30 UTC, Oten wrote:
> Which tools do you miss in the D language? it can be from any
> language not from C or C++ only but from any language that you
> have used and liked (might not liked but increased productivity
> anyway)  A very common argument from peoples which do choose
> other language than D is lack of your tools for D, even if they
> want to get D they say can't switch. The most common tools which
> they miss is debuggers/static analyzer/lint and so on. I think
> that by sharing this list with community instead of just say it
> like a criticizes is good because next time that some people say
> that such a x tools isn't available you can say "No, there's a D
> version for that". Also, totally new ideas are very welcome. If
> you  have had a idea that for any reason you wouldn't implement
> yourself, tell us too.
> (sorry for english, not my native language)

A quality GUI api with a decent GUI builder, something like the 
tools that come with Qt or that Window Builder for Java.

I find GTKD bindings are great but the GTK api itself, IMO, is 
less intuitive than Qt and GTK+Glade is a lot more work compared 
to other RAD tools in C++ or Java.


Cheers,
Ed


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